The United States regularly keeps citizens abreast of any concerns regarding travel to foreign countries. This week, the Department of State issued a number of travel warnings for Americans. On ...

On July 15, 1994, an unprecedented 250,000 Rwandan refugees crossed from Gisenyi (now Rubavu) into Goma, in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo--DRC).

CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).On 27 June, the ...

The AFC/M23 rebel movement has accused Congolese government forces of killing four of its compatriots in what it described as a demonstration of "warlike intentions," despite ongoing peace efforts ...

Uganda has reopened its border crossings with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), six months after sealing off key routes ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its ...

One way in which Rwanda is positioning itself to extract maximum non-aeronautical revenue benefit from Bugesera is by ...

Anselme Hamundwate, 23, right, and Mumbere Hamundwate, 25, work in a field in Katwa. After months of fighting in Lubero ...

For months, the capital of Tanganyika, a province bordering South Kivu, feared the arrival of M23 rebels and their Rwandan ...

U.S. funded treatments in the country have helped reduce deaths from HIV/AIDS to around 14,000 a year, from as high as ...